Posted on 08/09/2022 6:06:33 AM PDT by tlozo
After FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, legal expert Alan Dershowitz questioned on Newsmax the justification of a "last-resort" action by the Justice Department.
"A raid is supposed to be a last resort, but this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies," Dershowitz told Monday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "It's arrested people, denied them bail, put them in handcuffs – used all kinds of techniques that are not usually applied to American citizens, and I just hope this raid has a justification.
"If it doesn't have a justification, the material seized in it will be suppressed."
The FBI and the Justice Department should not have conducted the raid on Mar-a-Lago without exhausting all other remedies, Dershowitz told host Rob Schmitt.
"I suspect it has to do with some investigations leading toward Donald Trump and some of his associates, but again, the law is clear: You don't engage in a raid unless you've exhausted all the other remedies – unless you believe that the person rated will destroy the evidence.
"Raids are not a first recourse in America. They are a last recourse. And so the government will have to show a court, eventually, that they exhausted all other possibilities, or they had a reasonable basis for believing that the evidence would be destroyed if it was sought in the normal legal course of events through subpoena."
Dershowitz, a civil liberties legal expert and advocate, lamented the Biden administration Justice Department having used raids before exhausting other remedies.
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It was a stupid stunt and it will backfire.
They are desperate to stop Trump from saving America.
Has McConnell comment yet? Didn’t think so!😡
“First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.”
When the Red Tsunami comes, the Dems will be awash in their own blood, and they will be so purged that they will not attain control of national offices for the next 20 years or more.
MAGA!
PROOF that the FBI has become the Private Gestapo of the dem party!
On Inauguration Day 2025 President Trump needs to dissolve the FBI and fire everyone in the DOJ!
With this corrupt bunch it wouldn’t surprise me if they planted evidence. The SS just let them in and have free reign to grab want they wanted. How convenient that Trump was not there.
We already have, many times. And it will continue because we have done NOTHING.
And somebody, along the chain of command, apparently thought that Trump would succumb to an open show of intimidation.
They have sadly misundersetimated the personal resolution of Donald J. Trump. This is just another challenge, after a long lifetime of being challenged.
They are not after Trump, they are after the rest of us who support Trump. He is just in the way, and right now, is taking most of the flak.
Must be almost over the target...
By unleashing the FBI yesterday, Biden has now crossed the Rubicon, and he won't be able to turn back. For all the liberals' wailing that Trump wanted to be a dictator, we now have a full fledged dictator in Joe Biden, or whoever is behind him in the shadows.
And it will continue because we have done NOTHING.>>>>>>>
Such Pessimism?
No it will not continue. This is a fight DOnald Trump will win because of his 80 million supporters who truly love him.
Watch and learn.
I absolutely think it will backfire. Bigly.
This has washed the ground out from under the RINO’s feet. I genuinely believe the RINOs wanted to suppress turnout on the Right. McCarthy doesn’t want a whole host of MAGA Patriots in the House. That would jeopardize his position and his power. Ditto, in the Senate where the Turtle is no doubt fretting over Murkowski’s fate. Also, this will only galvanize voters on the Right to stand behind Trump all the more AND it will make the argument that Trump is the only one standing up to the corrupt Establishment ring that much more true with Hispanic and Black voters. They’re clearly out to get Trump and they clearly will abuse any power or authority they have to do so.
I forgot to add, this will make it that much easier to go scorched earth on the Deep State once Trump is back in office. RINOs in Congress will be too terrified to oppose it.
This is a watershed moment, akin to the Reichstag. Normal order has been overturned.
Him saying the courts won't like this down the line is ridiculous now, because if that was so, there would never have been a warrant in the first place.
We've experienced as a nation a silent coup in slow motion... with various turning points. Nov 2020 was one, and Aug 8 is another. From this point, it is waking more and more till some Black Swan event.
It’s clearly political theater.
Worse, political theater is a news conference or statement.
One thing that angered me was to see fbi agents with drawn “assault weapons” at the estate of a former President. That really is soviet inspired. Or Venezuelan. Is Biden Hugo Chavez?
And if the people who pull this nonsense don't care about your hope?
This is going to cause a lot more shifts away from the party that does this.
Especially from new ‘migrants’ who thought they left this kind of stuff behind
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